Julien
Annoni
Head of Creation département and Master in Music project creation coordinator
Julien Annoni is a percussionist, cultural mediator and event organiser. His life as an artist is characterised by a subtle blend of each of these elements.
Julien Annoni is co-founder of the Usinesonore association (2006), which explores the possibilities of staging contemporary events in a spirit of renewed artistic discovery. It was primarily for this project that he was awarded the 2019 Cultural Mediation Prize by the Canton of Bern. In 2018, he took over as artistic director of the ensemble We Spoke, which performs regularly throughout Europe. Since 2019, he has been in charge of the new musical season ‘Les Battements de l’Abbatiale’ at the Abbatiale de Bellelay.
Deeply committed to cultural life, he served on the board of trustees of the Théâtre du Jura until 2021. In 2023, he spearheaded the creation of the cultural umbrella organisation Grand Chasseral. He is also a member of the committee of La Marmite and the artistic committee of Impulse Neue Musik. He has been deputy director of the Bernese Jura Music School since 2020.
As a performer in other productions, he has appeared notably in *The Lion King* (2015), alongside Sylvie Courvoisier (2023) and currently with Erika Stucky.
He joined the HEM in 2025 as coordinator of the Master’s programme in musical project creation and took over as head of the Creation department in 2026
Nicolas
Rabaeus
Professeur de composition à l'image - musique et cinéma
Born in Geneva on 6 May 1984, Nicolas Rabaeus is a Swiss composer specialising in music for moving images. He mainly creates his music by recording and synthesising instruments and objects in his studio in Geneva, which he then combines with other musicians and ensembles.
Classically and jazz trained, he is equally comfortable with an orchestra in a concert hall as he is creating experimental textures with a modular synthesiser, or even with a guitar playing pop songs. This horizontal approach to music is his signature and helps him find a unique sound for each score.
His music has won several awards, including the Swiss Film Award (2023, for Foudre), the Colombier-Dompierre Award in Montreal (2023, for Foudre), and the Kinotavr Award in Sochi (2015, for Le syndrome de Petrushka).
Over the past fifteen years, he has worked on more than fifty projects with European and Swiss filmmakers.
